Hyclak and Johnes explore the extent to which wage rigidity differs across regional labor markets in the U.S. and how … differences in wage rigidity across regional labor markets. …

for median weekly earnings growth into the part associated with the wage growth ofpersons employed at the beginning and … end of the period (the wage growth effect) and the part associated withchanges in the composition of earners (the … tight job switchers get high wage increases,making them account for half of the variation in median weekly earnings growth …

: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention. Contrary to the traditional gift-exchange hypothesis, we show that … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …

We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects … dimensions. The large unconditional wage gaps (0.24 for public-private and 0.40 for foreign-domestic) in the data are little … unconditional wage differentials are mostly, but not entirely, a function of differences in worker and firm characteristics, and …

within either education or age groups. German wage setting institutions tend to limit earnings differentials across groups of … workers, but differences in wage setting institutions cannot fully explain the differences between trends in earnings …

Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated … scale-expansion effect that dominates the productivity-improvement effect, and the positive wage outcome from a productivity …